Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 102
Jul. 18th, 2023 11:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
As we near the end of the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselessness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before:
1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.
2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here.
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue.
4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religions, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules.
With that said, the floor is open for discussion.
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-18 08:34 pm (UTC)Long time reader, first time replying because I I appreciated danbashaw's request. I'm a practitioner of Chinese Medicine here in California. In our herbal pharmacopeia, we have herbal formulas to treat the symptoms of viral illnesses, along with all the common sense protocols like rest, fluids, sunshine, etc. Very late 2019/early 2020, news was coming out of Italy and China of pneumonias, particularly in Italy, where it tended to hit the senior population really hard. I remember most of my colleagues early discussing what formulas you would be able to use and when you could use them according to symptoms.
Then, everything went on high lockdown here in March 2020, and most of my colleagues shut their practices completely. I couldn't really understand why, as we had trained and prepared for this. During the downtime, I used to hike with a colleague who for years had railed against big pharma, banks, all of it. Her attitude flipped overnight! When I asked why they were taking the vaxx, in light of their mistrust of big pharma, all they could say was they were afraid of "long covid". We just couldn't get past the fear. And there was no more discussion anywhere about any remedy other than the vaccine.
For me, I think the switch was flipped in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election. The hatred and the vitriol that was spewed toward the winner of that election and the people who voted for the president was chilling to witness. At that point, I felt my "higher self/higher guide" message that this was now the time for me to tread the middle and to work to serve the balance. That I was not to buy into hatred or fear or worst case scenario and this was how I was going to come through the next few years. I got a sense at that time, that the intensity surrounding the aftermath of the election was just the beginning. I think it carried forward to not getting the vax, regardless of the pressures or the threat of job loss, etc. And people did stop talking to me, did refuse service,, etc. But I feel like I got super lucky because even though family members chose to get the vax, no one ever was disrespectful or disparaging. I never lost family over it.
But at that point in 2016 and again in 2020-21, I became really aware of treading a middle ground. Thank you
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-19 09:59 am (UTC)I wonder if you have found it clinically useful to apply concepts related to Blood Stasis, in particular, to some of the sequela of vaccination?
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-20 05:19 pm (UTC)I have found it very useful to look at the TCM concept of blood in general, in the aftermath of the vaccine. Not only stasis, but also heat and toxin in the blood. In terms of herbs, I like Xiao Chai Hu Tang, to vent the toxin in the shaoyang and assist the liver. Dang Shen, the blood has also been very helpful. Right now, I'm seeing post covid patients with POTS, so it's been a tough needle to thread between moving and clearing, but also with POTS there is a lot of fatigue and general disregulation of the nervous system.
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-20 06:36 pm (UTC)These are:
1) Aging and Blood Stasis, Yan De-Xin, Blue Poppy Press, 1995
2) Pricking the Vessels, Henry McCann, Singing Dragon, 2014
Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-19 11:51 am (UTC)Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-20 02:44 am (UTC)I had a very similar experience.
I too found the response to Trump's election to be downright chilling. I have never had a high opinion of Donald Trump - I grew up in New York, so Trump was in the local news and on my radar long before he went national, and I was never a fan - but the way people on the left responded to his election was, imo, far more appalling than The Donald himself ever was.
But it was right around the 2016 election that I started getting divination readings telling me to "find the balance" and promote harmony. And I kept getting those same readings when the whole covid debacle started.
I too have been trying to "tread the middle," not by accommodating authoritarian bullies, but by trying to be understanding of how so many people seemed to be caught in a spell, and by trying to build support and connections with people pushing back against forces of hatred and vitriol. I don't always do a good job, but I try.